Genealogical Records, Resources & Activities

  for Dallas, Dallas County and North Texas

Presentation Date: 03 March 2012

Presentor: Kathleen Murray & Tony Hanson

Length of Presentation: 65 minutes

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March 7, 2012 Update: 12 of the streamed sessions, including two keynote speakers (Jay Verlker's presentatin will be added later) are now available at http://rootstech.org

Web Links

RootsTech.org

• http://rootstech.org - Main Page. Videos
• http://rootstech.org/downloads - Sylabus

Standards

• http://fhiso.org - Family History Standards Organization
• http://bettergedcom.wikispaces.com/ - Build a Better GEDCOM
• http://bettergedcom.blogspot.com/ - Build a Better GEDCOM Blog
• GedcomX
  • http://www.gedcomx.org/
  • http://gedcomx.net/
  • https://github.com/FamilySearch/gedcomx
• http://gencontent.wikispaces.com/ - D. Josh Taylor's Universal Standard Wiki
• Google Microdata
  • http://schema.org/
  • http://historical-data.org/

Web Site Management/Search Engine Optimization

• https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Genealogical_Society_Webmasters - Genealogical Society Webmasters Family Search page
• http://analytics.topsy.com - Twitter Stats
• http://www.google.com/webmasters/ - Google Webmasters
• http://stackoverflow.com/ - Programming Questions and Answers
• http://www.sitepoint.com/ - Information for Programmers
• http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/ - Yahoo User Patterns

Commercial Sites

• http://www.ancestry.com/ - Ancestry
• http://www.findmypast.co.uk - FindMyPast
• http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk - Scotlands People
• http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk - Brittish Newspaper Acthive
• http://Censusrecords.com

Developers Challenge Winners

• http://notefuser.herokuapp.com/ - NoteFuser
• http://www.leafseek.com/ - Leafseek
• https://twenty.byu.edu/ 20 Minute Genealogist
• http://www.hitlabnz.org/index.php/products/facetree - FaceTree